Andrei Bely Prize awarded to Irina Sandomirskaja

Published on 1 December, 2013

Professor Irina Sandomirskaja has been awarded the prestigous Andrei Bely Prize for her recently published book Blokada v slove: ocherki kriticheskoi teorii i biopolitiki iazyka [Besiegement in Language: Essays in the Critical Theory and Biopolitic of Language] (NLO, 2013).

The prize consists of an apple, a single ruble, and a bottle of vodka, and has previously been awarded to a number of significant writers, philosophers and critics such as Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, Olga Sedakova, Elena Schwarz, Boris Groys, Mikhail Epstein, and Vladimir Malyavin.